You can open an application from the hub by clicking it. You can also open an application without data, or import an application that is not in the hub.
Opening an application without data
In some cases, you may want to open an application without loading its data, for example when there are large amounts of data that would take a long time to load.
When you open an application without data, visualizations will not work, as they are not connected to the data source. Additionally, the data manager and the data model viewer will not be available.
Do the following:
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Right-click the application in the hub and select Open without data from the shortcut menu.
The application opens, and you can access the data load editor to update the load script, and view or work with the layout of sheets and stories.
You can work with the layout of sheets and stories, to reorganize the content, for example, but you will only see representations of the visualizations. You cannot update measures or dimensions. You can make changes to the data load script, if you want to. Once you run the script in the data load editor successfully, the application visualizations will work as intended and will be ready to be used for data analysis.
Limitations
- You can only open your own unpublished applications without data.
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You can only open applications in qvf format without data; not documents in qvw format.
For more information, see Converting a QlikView document into a Qlik Sense application .
Opening an application that is not in the hub
You can open applications that you have received from someone else, downloaded from another Qlik Sense platform, or copied from Qlik Sense Desktop. You need to import the application before you can open it. You import the application in Qlik Management Console (QMC).